SCHOOL BASED WEB SITES

SCHOOL & COLLEGE BASED WEB SITES

A lot of useful material is being produced by teachers: sometimes in their own time (like this humble effort) or based at school.

Wycombe High School is probably my favourite school site. There are so many tremendous resources and links here. If the site had been around 10 years ago I would have saved myself a lot of time, and probably not bothered with all this GeographyPages nonsense. Check out the Mothersole's work at WYCOMBE HIGH SCHOOL here.

Andrew STACEY's excellent site which is now available from STACEY PEAK-MEDIA is well designed, and has a series of useful links to appropriate resources for Key Stages 3 & 4, particularly useful for those doing Edexcel Syllabus 'A' for GCSE level work. A series of downloadable tasks and worksheets could save you some time, including one on the Sahel, and an excellent image of soil erosion in Suffolk - visit the site to find out more. It is also fantastic for images of coastal erosion, notably at HAPPISBURGH.

THE GEOGRAPHY PORTAL is well worth a visit. This is produced by Kesgrave School in Suffolk. I like their flood Hydrograph exercise, and they have added a tremendous amount of new material since I first came across it, including a good range of downloadable revision sheets and Powerpoint presentations which are likely to save you a lot of time. Recommended.

Try SLEMISH COLLEGE: from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Some pupil work and useful Thinking Skills activities. They also produce an excellent range of GCSE revision activities, and are now adding some 'A' level materials too: mainly for Human Geography so far, but take a look and download what they've got available. Some useful other links. A fieldwork booklet for Year 13 students' visit and some Year 12 river fieldwork. There's also the SPAM mapping resource. This is turning into one of the best school sites around. Recommended.

Try the ST CHARLES COLLEGE for some excellent AS and A2 materials. We use their Meteorology materials in particular, although some of them have disappeared (and reappeared in commercial form).

Some good images of GREENHEAD COLLEGE's trip to Iceland, 2001 - this is a visit I plan to make at some stage. Iceland that is, not Huddersfield - I did my degree there a LONG time ago and spent 3 years living in the town: a great place with some fond memories for me.

Some resources for Post-16 Geography from HEATON MANOR school, Newcastle. Also a useful list of AS COURSEWORK titles from the same location.

King Edward VI Camp Hill school site: PUPILVISION by Keith Phipps: a winner at the 2001 National Teaching Awards for Most Creative use of ICT - useful materials and inspiration.

Some useful resources on Sand Dunes and Hazardous environments from CHELMSFORD HIGH SCHOOL for Girls. This has now been substantially added to, and is now an extremely useful visit. It has some new materials for Fieldwork, including a selection of HELP SHEETS. These provide useful advice on collecting data using a range of techniques.

There are also plenty of new 6th form resources. These include resources on a range of environments, including Coasts, Rivers, Earthquakes, Volcanoes etc.

There are also some excellent photos from North Wales: including ones on Hill Sheep Farming, Llanberis and Rivers.

One of the things at Castleford High School is a BECTa funded project called STREETWATCH. This allows students to compare streets in 2 areas, which is useful for Settlement and Urban studies work. Recommended.

OUSEDALE SCHOOL has an online unit for AS syllabuses on GLOBAL FUTURES if that's the sort of thing you have to cover.

From Stoke: St. Margaret Ward Catholic High School: their TEACHERS page has some useful sites (nice to see GeographyPages there, although the URL needs to be updated) and some useful materials for most age groups, with a lot of SLN stuff such as Web Enquiries used. They have recently added a lot of new materials, particularly the section on Fieldtrips which includes some useful spreadsheets which relate to Sheffield's CBD. Go HERE for the materials. Well worth a visit, especially as they have added some good materials as CONTRIBUTIONS. Try some of the PowerPoint presentations. Recommended.

Martin Doran of COLNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL has posted a few useful items on his website. There are notes on a number of useful geographical areas including farming, river landscapes and the Tuareg. He also has a useful simulation exercise which features a HURRICANE affecting Florida - called SIM CYCLONE

COLIN BESWICK has some resources on his site: there are a few mapwork examples including an OS mapskills exercise, and a cryptic map quiz which could be set as a sort of end of term activity. For some reason there's also stuff on maritime and continental climates and waterfalls. Maybe there's more to come. Now features a couple of photos of the Norber erratics.

There have also been moves towards incorporating ICT more into our teaching. An excellent site for this is BURFORD SCHOOL, which has materials for Year 7 & 8 (with Year 9 on the way...) which use an Environmental slant on delivering the QCA ICT curriculum. There are worksheets and other resources to download, and this site is Recommended. It has a useful basic ICT GLOSSARY that would also be useful.

The JFK School in Hertfordshire has some useful resources in the online section.

HELSTON SCHOOL in Cornwall also has a GEOGRAPHY WEB. Some of the worksheets that are included are those relating to the River Cober with lots of images of the river landscape.

There are some good resources produced at the Online resources section of TAVISTOCK COLLEGE in Devon.

This site was passed on to me by my colleague Mr. Kyd. It's the site of WINCHESTER COLLEGE and has some excellent resources. There are plenty of resources which have been put together by S.K Woolley including some rather good (large) Powerpoint presentations. This is an excellent stopping off point for any 'AS' teachers in particular. Also has some useful sets of digital images of coastlines, sand dunes at Studland, and the C.B.D of Winchester. Recommended.

Some good materials at the WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL site. It's nicely designed, although the tiny white text on black can get a little distracting and contains details of syllabus content, resources for learning and interactive quizzes for revision. This includes details on Assessment of student's work, Fieldwork - including some good photos of Devon including features such as tors, plus work for Years 7-9, GCSE, AS and A2.

HINCHINGBROOKE School has a useful Geography micro-site which includes, amongst other things, some useful images of features found on a field trip to the Norfolk Coast in 2002. There are images of Blakeney Spit, Dunes (Erosion and vegetation) and cliffs near Sheringham. There are also some examples of fieldwork data recording sheets. One looks at Cost-Benefit Analysis of certain coastal protection measures. It also looks at cliff foot processes and there is a useful sheet for recording the effect of a groyne on sediment movement.

ACLE School in Norwich has a good site for those wanting up to date weather information. Go to the home page, then click on WEATHER SITE and go to the Weather station. The data is updated regularly, and can usually be obtained for any time within the hour.

Some good images of the DORSET coast, with features such as Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Chesil Beach and Man o' War rocks produced by a Hertfordshire school.

NOTLEY HIGH SCHOOL in Essex has added several pages of images from various trips. They have photos from a visit to the THAMES BARRIER, HIROSHIMA GARLANDS, DORSET (plenty of images) and HANNINGFIELD RESERVOIR. Has now been added to with some other useful materials, notably some pictures of fieldtrips to STUDLAND BAY again, and a good set on BARTON ON SEA.

The Geography page of St James Catholic HIGH SCHOOL has a few images, notably of STICKLE TARN, with some new ones of CHESTER CBD, and the RIVER BOLLIN. There are also some literacy resources on this page: spelling mats, an examination mat, and rivers and earthquake mats.

Some excellent new resources at the QUEENSBURY SCHOOL in Bradford. There are 2 in particular that are useful: a Powerpoint presentation on a trip to Iceland - some great images and named examples, and a VIRTUAL TOUR OF MALHAM COVE (there are some good images of the area on the site too...)

The Wrotham School has a site called THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT. There are some useful resources on the site: photo galleries of Maidstone, Coastal Defences and Fieldwork Skills for example. Watch out for the blue blobs that follow your cursor around.

North Tyneside has produced the COOL SCHOOLS site for local schools, offering resources for all Key Stages.

Some useful materials available at HORBURY SCHOOL in Wakefield. There are plenty of images and links to some useful POWERPOINT presentations produced by 'Mr. Riches'.

John Harrison of the King's School in Peterborough has put the GEOGRAPHER site up. New content on there. Has power-points and resources, plus a rather good sample SYNOPTIC exercise. Recommended.

Some useful FIELD TRIP pictures and details on STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR AS / A2 INVESTIGATIONS at the KING's SCHOOL, Worcester.

HABSBOYS has some interesting sets of photos from trips around the place, including Walton on the Naze, Watford (famous for the Roy Harper song 'Watford Gap'.... what do you mean you haven't heard it....the Chilterns, Docklands - good images of various types of buildings, and Dorset.

Some reasonable sites listed by WOODHOUSE HIGH school in Staffordshire.

A recent find is BECKET SCHOOL in NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. This has some great material on it. Some very useful galleries including NOTTINGHAM, YORKSHIRE etc.

The BRITISH SCHOOL OF BRUSSELS has a nice site.

A growing site is that at ENDON SCHOOL in Staffordshire which has some useful GCSE case study material, and also photo galleries/

Katharine Lady Berkeley's school has a rather good WEATHER STATION site which features data, images, synoptic images and other school meteorology sites.

Recent site: GEOG4U at OUR LADY's CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, PRESTON with materials relating to Geog.DOT series.

http://www.freewebs.com/stopfordgeography/index.htm - Bishop Stopford's School has links to GeographyPages.

NEWER

GEO-WORLD which is based at the Beal High School. Nice design. Some interesting content and organisation.

Also new is the site of HAILEYBURY: a public school near Hertford. Their Geography resource centre has some nice touches. Nicely designed, spinning globes, Tsunami video footage and various links to different aspects of Geography. Go and take a look.

Anthony Gillett from Chorlton High School has created the MANCHESTERGEOGRAPHY site, which has some useful GCSE pages revision pages and galleries, and material relating to fieldwork in the Peak District.

Rob Burn's GEOGRAPHY LAB has been resurrected, and has links to various software and IWB ideas, and also an embryonic GBay - Geographical exchange place...

Rob Chambers has clearly been working hard on his GEOBYTES site, which forms part of a wider online learning community based at St. Ives north of Cambridge.

PRETTEJOHN DOT NET is a useful site put together by Chris Prettejohn. Some good ECOTOURISM ideas.

GEOG 4 U has some useful materials.

Not a new site, but one which has added a range of useful recent material is RALPH ALLEN school. This now has a large e-learning resources site, which has had some recent updates by the look of the dates. These include some information on the following topics, and is well worth a visit.

Fieldtrip to Bath documents and all associated sheets (useful for adaptation to other locations)

Peter Robinson at Kemnay Academy has let me know about his new site to support his students: good one !